“There were no contacts, especially “systematic ones,” with the chairman of the NATO military committee or other representatives of the North Atlantic alliance within the framework of the non-existent “Russian-American crisis commission for conflict resolution,” the defense department said.

Also, the Ministry of Defense called fiction from beginning to end the published information about the achievement of a certain “agreement” with Bauer on the issues of “safe movement of ships in the Black Sea”.

Earlier, the Euractiv portal, citing a source in NATO, wrote that the military of the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia agreed to be careful in the Black Sea in order to prevent conflict situations.

According to the source of the portal, the corresponding agreement was allegedly recently reached between Gerasimov and Bauer.